Computer Architect (AI)

Location: Mountain View, CA; San Francisco, CA; Houston, TX; Santa Clara, CA; the San Francisco Bay Area; Berkeley, CA; Munich, Bavaria, Germany; or Remote (U.S.)

Salary: $350,000–$500,000

Company

hirify.global is partnering with a well-funded AI hardware startup developing compute technology for advanced models.

What you will do

• Define instruction-set architectures for compute cores, memory subsystems, and interconnects.
• Derive architectural requirements from ML/AI workloads and emerging model trends.
• Write detailed architectural specifications and structured interface definitions.
• Specify numeric formats and quantization strategies for AI workloads.
• Evaluate area, timing, power, latency, throughput, and scalability tradeoffs.
• Collaborate with research, software, RTL, and physical design teams through architecture reviews, test planning, first-silicon bring-up, and post-silicon debug.

Requirements

• Strong computer architecture background and deep understanding of modern compute systems.
• At least 3 years of experience translating workloads or algorithms into hardware architectures.
• Experience evaluating hardware cost, area, timing, and power tradeoffs.
• Knowledge of numeric formats, quantization techniques, and precision tradeoffs for ML workloads.
• Programming and performance optimization experience, including structured interfaces and bit-level encodings using constructs such as structs and tagged unions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with VLIW, SIMD, or vector execution models.
• Experience designing custom ML silicon or AI systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with a world-class team that has a track record of shipping successful products.
• Join a startup that has raised more than $600 million.
• Contribute to an execution-driven environment focused on developing a fundamentally new chip architecture.